Demanding attention:
— Regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous.

synoniemen: clamant, crying, insistent, instant.

Roget 630: required etc. v.; requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite; called for; in demand, in request.    urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing.    in want of; destitute of etc. 640.    ... meer laten zien

Requiring precise accuracy:
— Became more exigent over his pronunciation.

synoniem: exacting.

Roget 739: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant^†, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell [U.S.], relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive etc. 744; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement etc. (ruthless) 914.1; cruel etc. (malevolent) 907; haughty, arrogant etc. 885; precisian^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 832: discontented; dissatisfied etc. v.; unsatisfied, ungratified; dissident; dissentient etc. 489; malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical.    repining etc. v.; regretful etc. 833; down in the mouth etc. (dejected) 837.    in high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor; glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of temper.    disappointing etc. v.; unsatisfactory.    frustrated (failure) 732.    ... meer laten zien